Angus vs. Baby Powder

Jens and Mac wanted Angus to smell better.  They tried baby powder.

Festival of Colors

We went to the Festival of Colors and it was AWESOME!!! I loved it, I am so glad we went.

The before picture

MJ thought this was so awesome.  She didn't want it to come off, so she held her hand like this for a while.

I hope we can do this again.  But, next time, we will go first thing in the day.  It was so incredibly crowded, and even more so when we left.  I would make sure to bring towels to put in the car for the ride home.

Soccer!

Mark managed to score some box seats to the Real soccer game.  It was a lot of fun.  I was so glad we were in the box because it was Freezing! Sam and Dia got to go too.

Tubing

We got these groupons for tubing in Midway.  We didn't have an opportunity to use them until the very last day possible.  So we made the trek.  Most (if not all) of the snow was made snow.  It was super slushy, but we made the best of it.  Most of the runs we slowed to a stop half way down.  Mac was too little to go down the hill, but he was quite a little trooper and just hung out in the tube.

I don't think Jens had to walk once.  She was pulled every where

Note to self.  Next year, go earlier in the year.
After we stopped at the Dairy King.  Mac thought it was amazing because they had trains.  The rest of us liked it because it had an awesome soda machine.

And another hike on the red rocks

Before we left St. George we went on another hike.

Great Gpa Hersch

We decided it would be fun to go Great Gpa Hersch and warm up a bit.  We headed to St. George for the weekend.  It was a bonus that Grandpa, Amooh and Clark came too!  And while we were there Uncle Brad, Aunt Mia and their kids came too.  

a little hike on the Red Mountains

While Mac and the Grandparents took a nap, we went for a little hike.

Valentines Day 2012

I made conversation heart notes (with Jens help) for valentines day.  I thought they were fun,

Isnt that a super cute mail box? Is that sewn? Why yes it is.  And guess who sewed it? Mark and Me! one of those good ideas at first.  We did 28 of them.

Happy #2 Mac attack!

Maceee boy turned two!! I say Everyone needs to have a kid like him.  He is sweeter than pie.  He is

starting to talk and we love to try and figure it out.  His favorite color is yellow- well, that is to say everything is yellow. If he has the choice he says yellow!  He loves to sing happy birthday.  His favorite thing to eat is pasta, and candy (he signs for the candy).  He loves to ride bikes and shovel the snow.

He loves attention from the girls.  Even if it means having to be dressed up in their clothes :)

The great smoke out

TWO days before we were suppose to get into our new house we were at the new house working on some things, and I went back to the apartment to get some things.  When I pulled up all the neighbors were on the grass, and I heard beeping.  I remember thinking "oh man, that sucks for someone, their fire alarm is going off."  As I got out of the car on of the neighbors came up to me and said, "Is that your place?" AHHHHHHHHH! YES.  I ran and unlocked the door and all I could see was SMOKE.  A very thick cloud of smoke.  I ran to the stove and got the pot off it, ran outside and put it in the dirt, ran back in and got the dogs.  Luckily the were in a room with the door closed so they were ok.  A few neighbors had called 911 so the firefighters came.  They checked to make sure it was ok and suggested we not stay there.  The smell was unreal.  I called Sam and he came and got the kids.  Mark and I tried to clean up.  Fortunately there was no physical damage, but the smoke damage was pretty intense.  We got some stuff out of the apartment, and spent the night in a hotel.  I wont lie, I was pretty upset.  My dad happened to call while mark and I were trying to get somethings.  I told him what had happened, and he said he would be there in the morning. (yeah, that is how great my parents are- still rescuing me:))

After 6 hours at the laundry mat, we came to the conclusion we were in over our heads.  We filed an insurance claim.  They came and got all our clothes, furniture, food, everything.  So when we moved, all we had was what was in storage.  Slowly we got all of our things de-stunked.  When we couldn't find things Jens would say, "Did that get smoked out?"

 The pot- the problem

 When we got our clothes and shoes back a lot of them were wrapped in paper.  Very nice, unless you have to unwrap all of them.  So Jens and I played "Its your birthday, open presents"  She thought it was the best thing in the world.  She even asked me to sing happy bday to her while she opened the "presents."

We are very blessed that no one was hurt, and we didn't loose anything valuable.  It was the best of worst case scenario.